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Lecture: Visualizing Revolutionaries in 1960s and 1970s Italy

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

THE WORKER, THE MILITANT AND THE MONSTER: Visualizing Revolutionaries in 1960s and 1970s Italy: A lecture by Jacopo Galimberti, University of Manchester Over the past twenty years, and particularly after the publication of Empire (2000), the theoretical insights of the 1960s and 1970s Italian far left have been reappraised by scholars, architects and artists. However, little has been written about the work of the…

Music: Klangtext I Michael Pisaro

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The music and ideas of Wandelweiser composer Michael Pisaro are featured in an evening of performances and discussion at Columbia University's Deutsches Haus. This event will showcase musicians from New York's aaaviary collective, Columbia University German Department's Ross Shields, New York-based writer, interdisciplinary artist, and Wandelweiser specialist, G Douglas Barrett, and the composer himself. Works including Pisaro's 'fields have ears'…

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From Abie’s Irish Rose to Anna Riley’s Rabbi Jake: The Irish-jewish Couple in Feature Films

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

From Abie’s Irish Rose to Anna Riley’s Rabbi Jake: The Irish-jewish Couple in Feature Films Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University speaks on how American feature films about Irish-Jewish romances have conveyed varying messages from extolling the “Melting Pot” ideal, exposing inter-ethnic tensions, epitomizing interfaith toleration, reflecting changing gender roles, and embracing multicultural diversity. The lecture…

Exhibit No. 1: 5846, 5851, and 5852 V. The Population and Migration Authority

Ludlow 38 38 Ludlow Street, New York, United States

Hinda Weiss & Asaf Weitzen Through colors, rhythms, and sounds, the video work and installation 5846, 5851, and 5852 v. the Population and Migration Authority portrays an Israeli supreme court's decision regarding three people requesting not to be sent to the Holot Detention Facility.* Truths embedded within a given language are explored in relation to the rights of asylum seekers and immigrants…

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Property in War and Revolution

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

This symposium presents new scholarship by five up and coming scholars doing path-breaking work on what happens to property in times of war and revolution, ranging from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The papers explore the fate of objects over a wide swath of time and variety of regimes in Europe and North America. Each author will give a…

Film: Measuring the World

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Their childhoods couldn’t have been more different: Alexander von Humboldt, born into a noble family, had the best private tutors in Berlin, a wealthy and prestigious family home and the protection of the powerful. Carl Friedrich Gauß grew up in poverty, was beaten by his classmates and teachers and then, once his mathematical talents could no longer be overlooked, he…

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Concert: New World, New Music

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqVGxlBcr8] New World, New Music is a celebration of the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World. As our contribution to the celebration, we have commissioned renowned composer and native New Yorker Bruce Adolphe and visual artists James Rouvelle and Lili Maya, known as maya + rouvelle, to create an integrative arts experience that will…

Leonard Bernstein and Vienna

Remarque Institute 60 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY, United States

RSVP required remarque.institute@nyu.edu

“Home Made in India:” A Conversation between Christopher Kloeble and Eric Jarosinski

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University, Christopher Kloeble, from his latest book Home Made in India: A Love Story Between Delhi and Berlin, followed by a conversation with @neinquarterly's Eric Jarosinski. Indians, Germans, and an author seeking to answer the question: What is home? Since his marriage to Saskya from India, Christopher Kloeble is a…

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Lecture: Physical and Psychological Aging In The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A lecture by Francesco Izzo, University of Southampton, co-director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at NYU In early nineteenth-century Italian opera, characters explicitly described as old are mostly a prerogative of comedy. In serious melodramma, the advanced age of some characters may be inferred by virtue of their role (father and grandfather, pastor), but only rarely is it explicitly stated, verbally…